His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. The Waverley novels. 25 vols. - 338 ページsir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) 著 - 1862全文表示 - この書籍について
| George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 ページ
...prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs, and a dubious hand ; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • , All times their fcenes of pom pous woes afford, From Perfia's tyrant to Bavaria's... | |
| Plutarch - 1808 - 342 ページ
...are victorious than it is to the vanquifhed." Then he paid his refpects to Helenus in a very obliging He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! jobnfoii. * Antigonuv the Firft was killed at the battle of Ipfus, and Demetrius the... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 ページ
...press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. In gay hostility, and barbarous pride, With half mankind embattled at his side, Great... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 420 ページ
...says of Charles XII. " Hii fall was destined to a barren strand, " A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; " He left the name at which the world grew pale, " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." The palaces in Sweden, though numerous enough, are less splendid or magnificent than... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 ページ
...press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a talc,. * All times their scenes of pompous woes afford, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 ページ
...press him to the ground ? His fall was deslin'd to a barren strand,. A petty fortress, and a dubious ount our gains : this wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product s adorn a tale. Ail* timcstheirscenesofponipoiiswoesafibrd, From Persia's tyrant, to Bavaria's lord.... | |
| Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 500 ページ
...press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a foreign strand; A petty -fortress, and a dubious hand ; . He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a- moral, or adorn a tale. My lord DOUNE (the present earl of MORAY) did me the honour to correspond with me, long... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 ページ
...press him to the ground ? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a cl'ibkras hand ; He left the name, at- which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. '-' All timestheirscenesof pompous woesaffbrd, From Persia's tyrant to Bavaria's lord!... | |
| John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 ページ
...bitter potion, which he was to drain from it. Says Johnson, speaking of Charles the twelfth of Sweden, He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. • By the world is intended here its inhabitants. 4. The name of a place is often substituted... | |
| Plutarch - 1811 - 352 ページ
...press him to the ground? His fall was dest'm'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand. He left the name, at which the world grew pale' To point a moral, or adorn a tale! membrance of the fate of his grandfather Antigonus* 3, and that of his father Demetrius,... | |
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